Coffee beans enter the laboratory to taste the smell of coffee

One wooden table and two rows of display machines

There are many factions about coffee shops. The sell of the chain coffee shop has become large-scale; small coffee shops are professional and well-known for their precision, which is very scientific; and some individual coffee shops only sell certain types of coffee beans to take care of the taste of small coffee shops. what is it all about drinking coffee?. Can you afford to drink with taste like Chen Haocai? Rabbithole Coffee & Roaster, which recently opened in Central, only neatly sets up wooden tables and coffee makers in the center of the store, allowing coffee drinkers to get together and talk about their ordinary coffee scriptures.

Walk along the Mid-levels escalator to Colin Street, Central, and climb two flights of stairs to Rabbithole Coffee and Roaster. Pushing the door in, there was a large wooden table in the middle of the shop, with different brands of coffee machines and bean grinders on both sides, while the young clerk turned his back to us and made coffee intently. The whole pattern looks like a showroom, but more like a coffee lab.

Also selling coffee machines to teach apprentices

The head of the lab is called Mike, who, like you and me, starts drinking coffee from chain stores and "plays" with coffee because he gets a coffee machine from friends. Later, when I became addicted to it, I was not satisfied with buying my own coffee beans and making coffee. I simply quit my job and went to Australia to study in the local cafe for a year. When he returns to Hong Kong, he is determined to open a shop, not just coffee shop or caf é. Rabbithole sells coffee as well as coffee beans, coffee machines, filter pots and other tools, and even holds coffee training class.

Rabbithole mainly focuses on individual coffee beans, that is, coffee beans from a single production area, including Ethiopia, Kenya, Brazil, etc., and will change their styles according to the season and the quality of coffee beans. Almost every coffee bean also has more than two cooking methods, such as espresso, latte, hand drip, syphon (siphon) and so on. "hand drip means dripping coffee. Pour the coffee powder into a filter cup and brew it at 80 to 85 degrees Celsius. Siphon is more complicated. If you heat the water in the lower pot, the hot water will rush to the upper pot. At this time, pour in the coffee powder and stir it to remove the hot lamp so that the brewed coffee will flow down naturally. "Mike explained it carefully.

Welcome to share your experience.

Asked about the characteristics of coffee beans, Mike stressed that this is a personal opinion: "what you drink is different from what I drink, but it's normal, because drinking coffee is a very personal experience." "clinging to this idea, Mike hopes to turn the store into a coffee showroom. Coffee machines and coffee beans are on display and are also the main equipment in the store:" there is no interval in the store. I just hope that customers can clearly see the process of making coffee by the clerk. If they are interested, they can even set foot to make a cup. "

In this laboratory, what the reporter appreciates is not the complete coffee machine, the smell of self-baked coffee beans, and the terms of the shop assistants, but the atmosphere of encouraging exchanges. Only one large ticket is set up in the middle of the store, and it has been stated that the shopkeeper's intention is to gather coffee lovers from all sides, instead of coming for free Wi-Fi.

■ Rabbithole Coffee and Roaster

Opening hours: 11:00 to 7:00

Address: 2 / F, 26 Ko Lun Street, Central

Enquiries: 2581 0861

(Zhang Aiting / tr. by Phil Newell)

Editor: qu Xiaotong